The bridge from English to Spanish
I am delighted to be making a new series of Spanish lessons based on the Spanish we can learn from Duolingo. The lessons explain the grammar and show you how you can used what you are learning. Enjoy.
Please download your free PDF of my notes on the units of Spanish Duolingo about family, clothes and the present tense verbs (singular persons), as studied in September 2023.
The first lessons in the course are here.
Learn vocab for parts of a car, driving, hiring a car, breaking down and getting a car fixed …There is so much here to practice, so download the free PDF and let me know what your driving stories in the comments box to the video!
Enjoy the video, and try doing the exercises. Remember, to gain the most confidence in Spanish, you have to practice recall!
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I would love to hear your driving stories. Please tell me all about it, in English, en español or in Spanglish por favor
Get to grips with the passive structures that tell you parking is forbidden, you can’t walk on the grass, and smoking is not allowed! There is a lot to practice, so download the free PDF and let me know what rules govern your domain!
Enjoy the video, and try doing the exercises. Remember, to gain the most confidence in Spanish, you have to practice recall!
Thank you for your support.
This lesson will refresh a lot of weather words, and introduce a few new ones. You will revise and practice using the present continuous, and you will also revise and get comfortable with the preterite (the past simple tense).
Enjoy the video, and try doing the exercises. Remember, to gain the most confidence in Spanish, you have to practice recall!
Thank you for your support.
In the U.K. 17 and 18 year old students may take A-level Spanish. This is Spanish at CEFR level B1 – B2.
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Get into this lesson and enjoy. If you have a favourites Spanish festival, I would love to hear about it.
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Do you know the words for all the things you might want and need in your hotel room?
Get into this lesson and enjoy. Write your answers with humour and send them off to me to enjoy!
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I’d like you to come on holiday with me. I fancy a road trip to take in some beautiful countryside, a steam railway and finish it off with a day at the spa. Can you persuade me to do something even better than that? Let’s look at the vocab and the language, and study together to raise our nivel de español. ¿Vamos?
Your challenge, should you choose to acceptarlo, es escribirme sobre lo que vamos a hacer de vacaciones juntos. Use plenty of future tenses, and remember! Make it persuasive, or I won’t come!
La idea es aumentar nuestro nivel de español. Do you have any favourite phrases from today’s lesson? Make a note, and share the best ones in the comments.
Hasta la próxima,
Ruth 🙂
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We all know what we think of staying in a tent in the rain, or in a noisy hotel packed with drunk tourists … but can you talk about it en español? Download the presentation, watch the video, complete the tasks and enjoy your growing vocabulary. You are using your time wisely!
Your challenge, should you choose to acceptarlo, es escribir un blog sobre varios tipos de vacaciones. Se titula “El paraíso de las vacaciones o el infierno de las vacaciones… ¡Qué elegir!”
La idea es escribir sobre tus preferencias, reconociendo lo malo de lo que te gusta y lo bueno de lo que no te gusta. If you would like to share your work, email me, or simply put it in the YouTube comments. Podría ser valioso y entretenido para nuestra pequeña comunidad leer sus ideas.
Hasta la próxima,
Ruth 🙂
Spanglish For Your Holiday. A great gift to get someone you love started with learning español. Click here.
Check out the other books in my bookshop:
Ready for more? Listen to Joaquín Sabina’s wonderful song, Ruido with the lyrics. Then follow the link to the lesson from ELE and complete the tasks. ¿Tienes preguntas? Just drop me a line 🙂
Revise your future tense verbs, memorising the endings and the “dirty dozen” – the 12 irregular stem forms. If you follow all the instructions in this lesson you will get some really good practice which will improve your confidence using Spanish, and improve your Spanish vocabulary.
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In this lesson Lola gets stood up. You learn the difference between direct and indirect object pronouns in Spanish. You write an angry (drunk!) letter from Lolita. She won’t be stood up again!
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Pronouns were also studied in Pasos 1. Why not dive deeper by looking at these additional lessons? Please remember to like the videos, to give me a smile … or even better, use the comments in YouTube to say “hola” and ask any questions you may have. Gracias por tu atención y compañía.
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